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Media Relations

Social networking applications can pose security risks

physorg.com
April 28, 2008

By Martha Irvine

People often think Facebook profiles and sometimes MySpace pages, if they're set as private, are only available to friends or specific groups, such as a university, workplace, or even a city.

But that's not true if they use applications.

Researchers at Indiana University published a study last year showing how they "scraped" information from students' social network profiles. Posing as people's friends, they then used the information to fool the students into providing their university ID and password on a bogus external Web site.

Read the entire article at: http://www.physorg.com/news128587894.html

Learn more about Indiana University at: http://www.indiana.edu/

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